The center is located on the North Campus, located at 840 Rosedale Avenue, in the City of St. Louis. .

No, the center is owned by Washington University in St. Louis but and managed by Bright Horizons Family Solutions. The University owns and maintains the building with Bright Horizons responsible for all other costs.

Bright Horizons, founded in 1986, is a leading provider of employer-sponsored child care, early education, family support, and work/life services. For more than twenty years, Bright Horizons has designed, developed, and managed child care and early education programs for employers that insist on a very high level of quality in child care centers. Founders, Linda Mason and Roger Brown, are well known as pioneers in developing employer-sponsored workplace services.

Today, as the leader in employer-sponsored child care with a depth of resources unparalleled in the industry, Bright Horizons' mission is to provide the highest-quality early child care and education in the world. The company currently manages more than 700 child care and early education centers for more than 700 clients in 43 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, the UK, and Ireland. These programs serve more than 70,000 children and their families.

Bright Horizons is an organization with a core mission of helping children and families. For those parents seeking additional resources beyond those that can be provided through Bright Horizons, the center has resource listings of educational specialists, medical consultants, nutritionists, speech therapists, and other community professionals who are available to work with children, families, and staff.

Bright Horizons' has more than 30 higher education clients who have sponsored child care and early education centers. The experience with university partners has provided important insights into the dynamics of university communities. These insights, combined with the wealth of resources that comes with being the industry leader in employer-sponsored child care, enables the development and management of customized, high quality, responsive university-sponsored programs.

Partners include the following universities: Cornell, Duke University, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Roosevelt University, and the University of South Florida, among many others. Services provided to institutions of higher education include full-time and part-time/flexible care, back-up child care, sick child care, and programs for school-age children.

For more information about Bright Horizons and its track record, please visit www.brighthorizons.com.

The center has a capacity for 156 children at one time: approximately 24 infants, 24 toddlers, and 80 pre-school age children.

The WUSTL Family Learning Center will serve the children of parents and legal guardians who are current University faculty, academic and non-academic staff, and full-time graduate and professional students and, the children of the benefits eligible employees of the University's basic services contractors.

The Center is open 6:30am to 6:00pm, Monday through Friday, and it maintains the same 8 day holiday schedule as the University. In addition, it will be closed for two scheduled staff development days.

Families first need to complete an Enrollment Interest form. Submit the Enrollment Interest Form and your $150 registration fee to the WU Family Learning Center, Campus Box 1237.

WU faculty and staff full-time graduate and professional students, have an equal opportunity to enroll a child(ren). Siblings of currently enrolled children have typically have priority for enrollment. There may be additional occasions, when an exception is made for a key recruitment situation. These decisions will be made at the discretion of Washington University.

Yes. Two and three day schedules are available. Scheduled days must be the same each week. Although families are free to drop their children off at any time throughout the day, there is no reduction in tuition for part day schedules.

The center offers back-up based upon the University's Back-up Care Advantage Program when regular child care is unavailable. Details of this program can be found on the HR website. Back-up care will be provided on a daily space available basis, for infants, toddlers, and pre-school age children.

There is not a sibling tuition discount however, priority is given if a family has a sibling already enrolled in the center. Please contact Ann Bingham, the center director at either annbingham@wustl.edu or 314-935-KIDS (5437).

If a family is away for an extended period of time and would like to be guaranteed a slot when returning, they will be required to pay for the slot. Families will also have the option of providing thirty-day notice prior to leaving and being put on the enrollment waiting list if/when they are returning.

A thirty-day notice is required for termination of affiliation with the center. Should a family's affiliation with WU be terminated, parents will work with the center director to find an appropriate transition time.

Enrollment Interest Forms and registration fees may be submitted to the Family Learning Center at 840 Rosedale Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63112, or via campus mail at Campus Box 1237. After a family is offered enrollment, they will receive a full enrollment packet and schedule an intake meeting to meet their child's classroom teachers.

There are no designated times for center tours or visits. Please contact Ann Bingham, the center director at either annbingham@wustl.edu or 314-935-KIDS (5437) to arrange for a tour.

No. Fifty percent of the child care slots at the University City Children's Center will continue to be committed to WUSTL families.